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disseisin or dis·sei·zin [di-sēz-n] n [Anglo-French disseisine, from Old French dessaisine, from dessaisir to dispossess see disseise ] : the act of disseising : the state of being disseised ...
Disseisin
Disseisin [fr. dissaisin, Fr.], a wrongful putting out of him that is seised of the freehold, not, as in abatement or intrusion, a wrongful entry, where the possession was vacant; but an attack on him who is in actual possession, and turning him out; it is an ouster from a freehold in deed, as abatement and intrusion are ousters in law, 3 Steph. Com. A title by disseisin is a good title against all but the rightful owner. Consult Williams on Seisin...
Fresh disseisin
Fresh disseisin, that disseisin which a person might formerly seek to defeat of himself, and by his own power, without resorting to the law; as where it was not above fifteen days old, or of some other short continuance, Britt. C. v....
Novel disseisin
Novel disseisin (recent disseisin). See also ASSISE OF NOVELDISSEISIN....
Post disseisin
Post disseisin, a writ that lay for him who, having recovered lands or tenements by force of novel disseisin, was again disseised by the former disseisor....
Re-disseisin
Re-disseisin, a disseisin made by him who once before was bound and adjudged to have disseised the same person of his lands or tenements, Fitz. N.B. 188; 1 Reeves, 263.Means depriving by one who has already dis-possessed the same person of the same estate, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1283....
Assise of novel disseisin
Assise of novel disseisin, an action to recover property of which a party had been disseised, i.e., dispossessed, after the last circuit of the judges. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27....
De quibus sur disseisin
De quibus sur disseisin, a writ of entry now abolished....
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Ouster
Ouster, dispossession.A wrong or injury that may be sustained in respect of hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, carry-ing with it the deprivation of possession; for thereby the wrongdoer gets into the actual occupation of the land or hereditament, and obliges him that has a right to seek his legal remedy in order to gain possession and damage for the injury sustained. Such dispossession may be either of the freehold or of chattels real.Ouster of the freehold was effected by various methods: 1, abatement; 2, intrusion; 3, disseisin; 4, discontinuance; and 5, deforcement.Ouster of chattels real consists: 1st, of a motion of possession from estates held by statute, recogni-zance, or elegit, which happens by a species of disseisin or turning out of the legal proprietor before his estate is determined, by raising the sum for which it is given to him in pledge; and 2nd, of a motion of possession from an estate of years, which takes place by a like kind of disseisin, ejection, or turning...
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